Fun, Fast Facts
1. Animals:-
① In New Zealand is home to 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
② The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.
③ A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle - a group of geese in the air is a skein.
④ Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
⑤ A house fly lives only 14 days.
⑥ Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.
2. Money:-
① The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
② If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 361 ft high and weight exactly 1 ton.
③ A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 22 lb.
3. Miscellenous:-
① The odds of being struck by lightning are about 600,000 to one.
② The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
③ China uses 45 billion chopsticks per year. 25 million trees are chopped down to make 'em sticks.
④ More personal telephone calls are made on Mother's Day in the USA than on any other day in any other country.
4. Food:-
① Wine is sold in tinted bottles because wine spoils when exposed to light.
② An onion, apple and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell.
③ Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.
④ In the US, about 280 million turkeys are sold for the Thanksgiving celebrations.
⑤ Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
⑥ Chocolate is the number one foodstuff flavor in the world, beating vanilla and banana by 3-to-1.
⑦ TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness.”
⑧ Carrots have zero fat content.
⑨ The tall chef's hat is called a toque.
⑩ Watermelons are 97% water, lettuce 97%, tomatoes 95%, carrots 90%, and bread 30%.
⑪ Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
5. People:-
① Half the world's population is under 25 years of age.
② One in ten people in the world live on an island.
③ Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
④ Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
⑤ The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
⑥ Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
⑦ On average a hiccup lasts 5 minutes.
⑧ In the US, murder is committed most frequently in Aug. and least frequently in Feb.
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